From the A-J's pages

More than twice as many people opted to call for a free ride home after New Year's celebrations than last year, according to the executive director of the Lubbock Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse.

50 years ago:

In the forefront of the fight against the state's crime problem, which has grown faster than the population, is the Division of Parole Supervision established by the 1957 Legislature. The program was approved partially to help answer the problem of a staggering prison population.

75 years ago:

Among material results of public expression of a need of a campaign of traffic law enforcement and traffic safety education, particularly in school zones, traffic signal lights are in operation on Nineteenth and Fourteenth Streets at the high school and junior high school blocks.

100 years ago:

M.S. Adoff of Austin returned to his home Wednesday after a visit to his ranch in Lubbock County.